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Who is asking
Two questions that change how a finance person shows up in a room, and why the second one is harder than it sounds.
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See what you’ve missed.
Leadership changes when you notice what you couldn’t see before.
Annelize du Toit works with leaders and teams to uncover the things that sit just outside their usual field of view. How they show up, how they affect others, and what they need to do differently.
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The idea
We all have blind spots.
Not because we aren’t capable.
Not because we don’t care.
Simply because we cannot see everything from where we stand.
- The way you communicate.
- The impact you have in a room.
- The conversation you keep avoiding.
- The personality you struggle to work with.
- The assumptions you don’t realise you’re making.
These things shape leadership every day. The question is:
What are you missing?
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The questionnaire
What are you not seeing?
Take the free 5-minute leadership questionnaire. Around 20 questions designed to help you identify the things you may have stopped checking.
You get a personalised profile highlighting where your blind spots may sit, along with three questions to help you start doing something about them. Your result appears on the page as soon as you finish.
Free.Five minutes.No login required.
Find out what you’re missingWhat it covers
- 01How you land
- 02Being understood
- 03The conversations you are not having
- 04Working with people unlike you
- 05Expert to leader
About
Meet Annelize
She brings curiosity, candour and a genuine interest in people into the room. She asks the questions others sometimes avoid, challenges assumptions and notices the things that can easily get missed.
Because good leadership isn’t only about knowing the numbers. It’s about understanding the people behind them.
Numbers don’t make decisions. People do.
Her work isn’t about giving people another leadership model to memorise. It’s about helping people stop, look again and understand what is actually happening: in themselves, in their teams, and in the spaces between people.
Read more about AnnelizeFCMA
Fellow Chartered Management Accountant, CIMA, awarded 2021
Former Chair, CIMA Australasia
Founding co-chair then chair of the AICPA and CIMA Australasia Area Committee, 2021 to 2023, covering around 5,000 members and 700 students
20 years in finance
Operating roles across South Africa and New Zealand
CGMA
Chartered Global Management Accountant, featured in the AICPA and CIMA professional journey series
Services
Where the work happens
Different rooms need different conversations.
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Keynotes
Ideas that challenge how people think about themselves, leadership and their impact on others.
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Workshops
Practical, facilitated sessions that turn insight into something people can use on Monday.
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Leadership retreats
Space to step away from the noise, have the conversations that matter and see things differently.
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Coaching
Focused one to one work for leaders navigating growth, change, difficult relationships or their next level of responsibility.
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Leadership programmes
Deeper learning experiences designed around the specific needs of a team or an organisation.
The signature questions
The things we don’t usually check
- 01How do people experience you when you are under pressure?
- 02What happens to your communication when you think you are being clear?
- 03Which personality types bring out the version of you that you like least?
- 04What conversation are you having around someone rather than with them?
- 05What do you assume other people already understand?
- 06Where has expertise become a blind spot?
- 07What changed when you moved from being the expert to being the leader?
If more than one of those made you pause, that is the point.
Take the questionnaireYou don’t need another leadership lecture. You need a different view.
Annelize’s work is built around a simple premise.
Awareness changes behaviour.
When you can see something clearly, you have a choice about what to do with it. The work is not about fixing people. It is about giving people the language, perspective and questions to understand themselves differently, and to lead differently as a result.
There may be something worth looking at.
Whether you’re thinking about a leadership team, a difficult conversation, an upcoming event or your own next step, start with a conversation.
No commitment. Just a conversation about what you’re trying to solve.